The 50/50 Rule
There’s a great post on Jensen Harris’s blog today about the tradeoffs in designing software. Here’s an interesting observation:
“One of the challenges of designing a piece of software for 400 million people is that even if you are extremely successful with a design–even if you totally hit it out of the park and delight 99% of your customers… well, you still have roughly the population of New Zealand who think you made the wrong decision.”
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